Heteropsis adolphei

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Redeye bushbrown
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Heteropsis
Species:
H. adolphei
Binomial name
Heteropsis adolphei
Synonyms
  • Satyrus adolpheiGuérin-Ménéville, 1843
  • Mycalesis adolphei(Guérin-Ménéville, 1843)
  • Mycalesis onatasHewitson, 1864
  • Telinga adolphei(Guérin-Ménéville, 1843) [2] [3]

Heteropsis adolphei, the red-eye bushbrown, [1] [4] is a species of satyrine butterfly found in southern India. [1] [4] The species name is after Adolphe Delessert who collected the first specimens based on which the species was described. [5]

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Description

Upperside dark umber brown. Forewing with a large, white-centred, fulvous-ringed black median ocellus and a white-centred preapical much smaller black spot. Hindwing uniform, a post-median series of from two to four white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocelli, sub-equal and smaller than the posterior ocellus on the forewing. Underside: ground colour similar, but irrorated (sprinkled) with obscure transverse striae of a deeper brown; the terminal margins of both forewings and hindwings very broadly paler; the dark basal portion of the wings sharply defined by a very dark brown line; a postmedian series on both wings of rather small white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocelli—two on the forewing, a median and a preapical; seven, placed in a slight curve, on the hindwing. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark umber brown, paler beneath. Male sex-mark of form 2, the patch of specialized scales on both forewing and hindwing very small; the nacreous area surrounding the specialized scales on the underside of the forewing very pale brown. [6] [7]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 Savela, Markku. "Heteropsis Westwood, 1850". Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  2. Aduse-Poku, Kwaku; Lees, David C.; Brattström, Oskar; Kodandaramaiah, Ullasa; Collins, Steve C.; Wahlberg, Niklas; Brakefield, Paul M. (2016). "Molecular phylogeny and generic-level taxonomy of the widespread palaeotropical 'Heteropsisclade' (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Mycalesina)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 717–731. doi:10.1111/syen.12183.
  3. Kodandaramaiah, U., D. C. Lees, C. J. Müller, E. Torres, K. P. Karanth and N. Wahlberg. 2010. "Phylogenetics and biogeography of a spectacular Old World radiation of butterflies: the subtribe Mycalesina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrini)". BMC Evolutionary Biology, [10:172 (PDF)
  4. 1 2 R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 175–171. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN   978-81-929826-4-9.
  5. Delessert, Adolphe (1843). Souvenirs d´un voyage dans l´Inde exécuté de 1834 à 1839. Paris: Bétrune et Plon for Fortin, Masson et Cie & Langlois et Leclerq. p. 76.
  6. ‹See TfM› PD-icon.svg One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain : Bingham, Charles Thomas (1905). Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1. London, Taylor and Francis; Calcutta and Simla, Thacker, Spink, & Co.; [etc.,etc.] p. 60.
  7. Moore, Frederic (1890). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. I. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 210–211.

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